Everyday
practice is simply to develop a complete carefree acceptance, an openness to
all situations without limit.

We should realize openness as the playground of our emotions
and relate to people without artificiality, manipulation or strategy.

We should experience everything totally, never withdrawing
into ourselves as a marmot hides in its hole. This practice releases
tremendous energy which is usually constricted by the process of maintaining
fixed reference points. Referentiality is the process by which we retreat
from the direct experience of everyday life.

Being present in the moment may initially trigger fear. But
by welcoming the sensation of fear with complete openness, we cut through
the barriers created by habitual emotional patterns.

When we engage in the practice of discovering space, we
should develop the feeling of opening ourselves out completely to the entire
universe.

We should open ourselves with absolute simplicity and
nakedness of mind.

This is the powerful and ordinary practice of dropping the
mask of self-protection.

We shouldn't make a division in our meditation between
perception and field of perception. We shouldn't become like a cat watching
a mouse.

We should realize that the purpose of meditation is not to
go "deeply into ourselves" or withdraw from the world. Practice should be
free and non-conceptual, unconstrained by introspection and concentration.

Vast unoriginated self-luminous wisdom space is the ground
of being -the beginning and the end of confusion. The presence of awareness
in the primordial state has no bias toward enlightenment or
non-enlightenment. This ground of being which is known as pure or original
mind is the source from which all phenomena arise. It is known as the great
mother, as the womb of potentiality in which all things arise and dissolve
in natural self-perfectedness and absolute spontaneity.

All aspects of phenomena are completely clear and lucid. The
whole universe is open and unobstructed - everything is mutually
interpenetrating.

Seeing all things as naked, clear and free from
obscurations, there is nothing to attain or realize. The nature of phenomena
appears naturally and is naturally present in time-transcending awareness.
Everything is naturally perfect just as it is. All phenomena appear in their
uniqueness as part of the continually changing pattern. These patterns are
vibrant with meaning and significance at every moment; yet there is no
significance to attach to such meanings beyond the moment in which they
present themselves.

This is the dance of the five elements in which matter is a
symbol of energy and energy a symbol of emptiness. We are a symbol of our
own enlightenment. With no effort or practice whatsoever, liberation or
enlightenment is already here.

This everyday practice is just everyday life itself. Since
the undeveloped state does not exist, there is no need to behave in any
special way or attempt to attain anything above and beyond what you actually
are. There should be no feeling of striving to reach some "amazing goal" or
"advanced state."

To strive for such a state is a neurosis which only
conditions us and serves to obstruct the free flow of Mind. We should also
avoid thinking of ourselves as worthless persons - we are naturally free and
unconditioned. We are intrinsically enlightened and lack nothing.

When engaging in meditation practice, we should feel it to
be as natural as eating, breathing and defecating. It should not become a
specialized or formal event, bloated with seriousness and solemnity. We
should realize that meditation transcends effort, practice, aims, goals and
the duality of liberation and non-liberation. Meditation is always ideal;
there is no need to correct anything. Since everything that arises is simply
the play of mind as such, there is no unsatisfactory meditation and no need
to judge thoughts as good or bad.

Therefore we should simply sit. Simply stay in your own
place, in your own condition just as it is. Forgetting self-conscious
feelings, we do not have to think "I am meditating." Our practice should be
without effort, without strain, without attempts to control or force and
without trying to become "peaceful."

If we find that we are disturbing ourselves in any of these
ways, we stop meditating and simply rest or relax for a while. Then we
resume our meditation. If we have "interesting experiences" either during or
after meditation, we should avoid making anything special of them. To spend
time thinking about experiences is simply a distraction and an attempt to
become unnatural. These experiences are simply signs of practice and should
be regarded as transient events. We should not attempt to re-experience them
because to do so only serves to distort the natural spontaneity of mind.

All phenomena are completely new and fresh, absolutely
unique and entirely free from all concepts of past, present and future. They
are experienced in timelessness.

The continual stream of new discovery, revelation and
inspiration which arises at every moment is the manifestation of our
clarity. We should learn to see everyday life as mandala - the luminous
fringes of experience which radiate spontaneously from the empty nature of
our being. The aspects of our mandala are the day-to-day objects of our life
experience moving in the dance or play of the universe. By this symbolism
the inner teacher reveals the profound and ultimate significance of being.
Therefore we should be natural and spontaneous, accepting and learning from
everything. This enables us to see the ironic and amusing side of events
that usually irritate us.

In meditation we can see through the illusion of past,
present and future - our experience becomes the continuity of nowness. The
past is only an unreliable memory held in the present. The future is only a
projection of our present conceptions. The present itself vanishes as soon
as we try to grasp it. So why bother with attempting to establish an
illusion of solid ground?

We should free ourselves from our past memories and
preconceptions of meditation. Each moment of meditation is completely unique
and full of potentiality. In such moments, we will be incapable of judging
our meditation in terms of past experience, dry theory or hollow rhetoric.